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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |Richard Freeman
Peace between Israel and the Arab nations and a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel are still possible, according to Yossi Beilen, a key Israeli negotiator in the 1993 Oslo Accords, which initiated the first Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Beilin made his comments at a Feb. 6, 2025 lecture at the University of California’s Los Angeles Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Richard Freeman |Jason Ross |Carl Osgood
Russian and American delegations met at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 27 for talks on normalization of relations, including operations of each country’s embassies. “We have announced that our diplomats and high-level experts will meet to address systemic problems arising from the previous U.S. administration’s unlawful efforts to create artificial barriers to the Russian embassy’s activities.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |Cynthia R. Rush
The U.S. United Nations Security Council resolution on a Ukrainian peace settlement is seen as a good starting point, according to a statement made after the vote by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya. “The text adopted now is not ideal, but it is, in fact, the first attempt to adopt a constructive and future-oriented product of the Council, talking about the path to peace, rather than escalating the conflict.
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Janet West |Dean Andromidas |Jason Ross
Hundreds of thousands attended the funeral of former Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah at Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on Sunday, with crowd estimates ranging from 450,000 to over 1.4 million. The ceremony also honored Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, Nasrallah’s successor, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike days after Nasrallah’s September 27, 2024 assassination, achieved by an Israeli Air Force strike that dropped more than 80 bombs to kill him.
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Stewart Battle |Gretchen Small |Michael Billington
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, hosted an “informal” meeting of Arab leaders to discuss the regional crisis and the Egyptian Gaza reconstruction plan ahead of the emergency Arab Summit to be held in Cairo on March fourth. High on the agenda of the March summit will be the Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza which is the Arab answer to President Donald Trumps so called Gaza Reviera plan. .
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Dennis Small |Michael Billington |Claudio Celani
The big winners in Washington for the moment are Republican lobbyists, who are making millions, as Europeans desperately seek contact with the Trump Administration. The Republican lobbyist firm BGR group has raked in no less than $3.3 million in the three weeks since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, according to euobserver. This post is for paying subscribers only Subscribe now Already have an account? Sign in
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Paul Gallagher |Dennis Small |Stewart Battle
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto is in Washington, discussing the lifting of some anti-Russian sanctions. On February 19, he met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “Naturally, we touched upon the issue of the sanctions that were imposed by the [U.S.] Biden administration and that are harming Hungary’s energy security,” he said, in an interview with the M1 television company.
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Stewart Battle |Carl Osgood |Paul Gallagher
President Donald Trump has revealed that he discussed holding a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. “We ultimately expect to meet. In fact we expect that he’ll come here and I’ll go there. And we’re going to meet also probably in Saudi Arabia … [and] see if we can get something done,” Trump told journalists at the White House Feb. 12.
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Dean Andromidas |Cynthia R. Rush |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
The first appointment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had on his return to Israel from the United States, was to appear in the Tel Aviv District Court where he is on trial for corruption. He was supposed to testify last week but went to the U.S. instead.
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2 months ago | 
eir.news | Bill Jones |Gretchen Small |Michael Billington |Dean Andromidas
In a surprise announcement on February 6, the Russian government reported that it was relieving the head of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, Yuri Borisov, and appointing in this place the 39-year old Deputy Administrator of the Transportation Ministry, Dmitry Bakanov. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the government was not concerned with the work Borisov was doing, but that it was time for a change.
